[IO Islamic 1745] كلّيّات عرفى

<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyy&acirc;t-i-&rsquo;Urf&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1453 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1754 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1453</p> <p>A defective copy of the same Kulliyy&acirc;t.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1. Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 1^b, beginning: اقبال كرم الخ .</p> <p>2. Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, on fol. 64^b, beginning: اى دل راهزن الخ.</p> <p>3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 73^b, beginning: تحفۀ مرهم الخ ; there is a lacuna after fol. 106; the last bait, on fol. 106^b, corresponds to fol. 78^b, first column, ll. 7 and 8, in No. 1484 (1451 in this Cat.); the first ghazal, on fol. 107^a, is found in No. 1484 on the same page, third column, first line; the second, on fol. 79^b, middle-column, l. 5.</p> <p>4.Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 177^a, beginning as in No. 1484.</p> <p>5.Majma&rsquo;-alabk&acirc;r, on fol. 193^b, beginning as usual; it is slightly defective at the end, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 238; the last bait, that appears here, corresponds to No. 1484, fol. 214^a, third column, ll. 9 and 10.</p> <p>6.S&acirc;ḳ&icirc;n&acirc;ma (ساقينامه), on fol. 239^a, beginning:</p> <p>بيا ساقى اين تشنگی را بسنج &ndash; پس از آرزوى دل ما مرنج</p> <p>This mathnaw&icirc;, not found in the other copies of &lsquo;Urf&icirc;&rsquo;s works in the India Office Collection, is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 65, first line, and p. 901, No. 4; in Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 262, No. 5; and in No. 1052 of the Bodleian Cat.</p> <p>7.Farh&acirc;d u Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n, on fol. 241^b, beginning as usual.</p> <p>No date; the first thirty-seven leaves partly collated; many baits slightly damaged both at the beginning and end.</p> <p>No. 1745, ff. 255, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b, 73^b, and 193^b; size, 8&frac14; in. by 4&frac34; in.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>